SCRAP. A villainous scheme or plan. He whiddles the
whole scrap; he discovers the whole plan or scheme.
SCRAPE. To get into a scrape; to be involved in a
disagreeable business.
SCRAPER. A fiddler; also one who scrapes plates for
mezzotinto prints.
SCRAPING. A mode of expressing dislike to a person, or sermon, practised at Oxford by the students, in scraping their feet against the ground during the preachment; frequently done to testify their disapprobation of a proctor who has been, as they think, too rigorous.
SCRATCH. Old Scratch; the Devil: probably from the long and sharp claws with which he is frequently delineated.
SCRATCH LAND. Scotland.
SCRATCH PLATTER, or TAYLOR'S RAGOUT. Bread sopt in the oil and vinegar in which cucumbers have been sliced.
SCREEN. A bank note. Queer screens; forged bank notes.
The cove was twisted for smashing queer screens; the
fellow was hanged for uttering forged bank notes.
SCREW. A skeleton key used by housebreakers to open a
lock. To stand on the screw signifies that a door is not
bolted, but merely locked.
TO SCREW. To copulate. A female screw; a common
prostitute. To screw one up; to exact upon one in a
bargain or reckoning.